In the end, robots do things that people can do. So there is a cost above which you can hire somebody to do it, and that bounds the opportunity.

I grew up mostly in Schenectady, N.Y. From an early age, building and creating things was a real passion for me.

Its going to be interesting to see how society deals with artificial intelligence, but it will definitely be cool.

The way that the robotics market is going to grow, at least in the home, is that we'll have a number of different special purpose robots.

I think, people are generally willing to imagine robots of all shapes, as humanoid robots are not practical.

When I was building robots in the early 1990s, the problems of voice recognition, image understanding, VOIP, even touchscreen technologies - these were robotics problems.

At the World Cup, there is a constant risk that you might find a bag or some object that has been left behind, and no one is quite sure what it is. To bring in a full bomb-disposal team for each item can be very time-consuming. The PackBot can go over rough terrain, climb stairs, pick things up, and also be operated from a safe distance.